(The following is a transcript of a Ron Paul article from 1990 in his newsletter, The Ron Paul Survival Report. Links to the scanned copies are here:

http://i43.tinypic.com/2rylfv7.png

http://i44.tinypic.com/wgqgeh.png

David Duke received 44% of the vote in the Senate primary race in Louisiana, 60% of the white vote and 9% of the black vote!. This totaled 100,000 more votes that the current governor when he won.

Duke lost the election, but he scared the blazes out of the Establishment. If the official Republican hadnt been ordered to drop out, he might have won. Certainly there would have been a run-off.

Dukes platform called for tax cuts, no quotas, no affirmative action, no welfare, and no busing. Tonight, we concede the election,  he said. But we will never concede our fight for equal rights for all Americans.

To many voters, this seems like just plain good sense. Duke carried baggage from his past, but the voters were willing to overlook that. And if he had been afforded the forgiveness an ex-communist gets, he might have won.

Liberals like Richard Cohen of the Washington Post say he got so many votes because Louisianians were racists and ignorant. Baloney.

David Broder, also of the Post and equally liberal, writing on an entirely different subject, had it right: No one wants to talk about (race) publicly, but if you ask any campaign consultant or pollster privately, you can confirm the sad reality that a great many working-class and middle-class white Americans are far less hostile to the rich and their tax breaks than they are to the poor and minorities with their welfare and affirmative-action programs.

Liberal are notoriously blind to see the sociological effects of their own progress. David Duke was hurt by his past. How many more Dukes are waiting in the wings without such as taint?

Now that it pretty much has been determined that Ron Paul has been lying when he said he didn't write or know anything about them based on his confession to CSPAN in 1995 and to the Houston Chronicle and Dallas Morning News in 1996 he wrote them, it is time to give what he wrote a closer look.

I was in Lousyana and campaigned for David Duke. Edwin Edwards had stolen the State Blind (think Chicago x10), His campaign slogan was ‘Vote for the crook, It's Important’ I kid you not. Texas Politics are screwed up but Louisiana takes the cake.

Gov. Jindal has had a significant impact, but until Sen. Landeau and her brother (Mayor of Nawlins) is removed that state and particularly that city will remain in Huey Long territory-Socialist to the core. JMHO.

Sorry you feel that way, my point, which I totally lost was I don’t think I am a racist. I have been called that on occassion, even in here (Cain threads). I’m pushing 60 with a short stick, raised in 50’s louisiana....Glad you can call it. Personally, I’ve got the flu, if I live through this I will apologize, another day.

David Duke can't be rehabilitated for politics. Not only was he in the KKK, he was a famous KKK leader. He was particularly notorious. Maybe someday he will get religion and repent, but there is no fixing him up now or back then politically.

It was just a joke. I do find it funny though looking back, how many were willing to sell out to Duke knowing his history and the fact he was a Democrat in the previous election cycle when running for Congress. What made anyone think he was to be trusted or the long term implications of his being associated with the Republican party if he won? That would have been one of those cases where I would have had to write in Donald Duck.

Not to me (Breaking News, I already knew this), but I’ve been called a racist b4. I love people so much I’m gonna go to the Lickher store and get some Jim Beam Devil’s Cut to try and break this flu and infect the poor slob selling it to me with the same. It’s New Braunfels Texas he is probably not Black but Hispanic like me.

I don't see that the article is praising Duke, but rather analyzing his performance in the election. On several occasions the article notes Duke's "baggage" and "taint" and suggests that a future candidate who doesn't have that baggage and taint but has the same platform could succeed.

Put another way, the article can be summarized as "A candidate who wasn't a racist who ran on a platform of lower taxes, no welfare, etc. could win." How is that "praise" for Duke?

Clinton was in the doghouse/WhiteHouse in 91, nothing made sense. Not even David Duke, but Edwin Edwards...Hell I would have voted for neone the Republican ticket of Louisiana put forth, unfortunately that was the Dukester. Disaster, Yes..I guess I’m trying to say-Ron Paul’s a Nut, not me.

It doesn't to me. I've read some of Ron Paul's more recent writings, and the style of this piece looks different. For example, that one-word sentence "Baloney." looks like someone else's writing. Ron Paul doesn't write that way; he doesn't use one-word sentences for emphasis.

You know who should take a look at those letters? Jack Cashill. He's the expert in the matter, given how he exposed Billy Ayres. Some Paul-bashers will be disappointed, but there's a real scoop waiting for him if he does.

I have read some speculation that the real author was Murray N. Rothbard, but again I'm not the expert in the matter.

I stand corrected. Bourbon St and corbe became quite a fog. I don't miss it, it's a terrible/weak excuse. I often wonder if my birth state Louisiana can ever have a Heart. In spite of what Ron Paul believes.

Interesting. I'll have to look into the "Jews and Christians Against a Mideast War" PO Box 2802 Auburn, AL.Funny no one listed in that preceding article was from Auburn University.They are probably using the name "Alliance for Peace and Justice Auburn, Alabama" now.

Someone explain to this poor working white middle class redneck how the article mentioned here is "damning" to RP.If it is that he denied its' existence I get that, otherwise I'm (again) clueless.

You should look up the video on YouTube where he was on the Morton Downy TV program back in the late 80s (or early 90s). He certainly did speak like that, at least then. He practically cursed out Curtis Sliwa's wife and was screaming a lot of one-word epitaphs.

“If you are indeed a Paul supporter, its weird that you admit to having a good laugh when your candidates record threatens to torpedo his campaign.”

Not really. I’m not so blind a supporter of any candidate that I’m going to say that the moon is made of green cheese in order to support them. I already have a messiah, his name is Jesus Christ. I don’t need another one.

As for this thread, what I found so funny and continue to find funny is the unrelenting drumbeat of over-the-top criticism of Ron Paul.

46
posted on 12/23/2011 7:30:01 PM PST
by RKBA Democrat
(The gop is as much a plantation for conservatives as the 'rat party is for blacks.)

The trouble is, if you put out a newsletter you are responsible for what is in it.

Let me shock you all by criticizing Ron Paul in a way that no-one here has.

There's a pattern in his life which suggests strongly that he's easy to take advantage of. Yes, this is a criticism of him as a Presidential candidate. What would it be like to have a man in the White House that's easy to take advantage of? Wouldn't that mean America was going to be taken advantage of?

Per the previous note, here is a video of Paul around the time of the writing this article (just a few years before). He didn’t have the composed, old guy voice he has now.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvVqDEQG8bY

Lots of one word for emphasis sentences in that, lots of ‘baloney’ type outbursts.

Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.